- B5
- Series
- [1905x1937]
Notes of lectures delivered by J. Lloyd Williams, [1905x1937], relating mainly to plant life and often drawing analogies with life in general.
Notes of lectures delivered by J. Lloyd Williams, [1905x1937], relating mainly to plant life and often drawing analogies with life in general.
Individual collections and selections
Collections of folk songs, carols and ballads, including those of members of the Canorion and Welsh Folk-Song Society, and eisteddfodic competitors. The collections of J. Lloyd Williams himself are also included, together with his transcripts of individual manuscripts compiled by others, and printed sources.
Indexes and lists of folk songs, melodies and hymn tunes, compiled mainly by J. Lloyd Williams from various printed and manuscript sources.
Drafts of J. Lloyd Williams's proposed history of Welsh music, together with related notes.
Correspondence, 1875-1945, between J. Lloyd Williams and friends, acquaintances and publishers.
Correspondence, 1899-1945, reflecting the various aspects of J. Lloyd Williams's interest in the music of Wales. Amongst the topics discussed are singing festivals, lectures, concerts, broadcasting and the publication and performance of his own works. Some letters also include references to Y Cerddor, and to the work of the Welsh Folk-Song Society.
Folk songs and Welsh Folk-Song Society
Correspondence relating to folk songs in general and individually, and to the work of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, consisting of letters to J. Lloyd Williams mainly in his role as editor of the Society's Journal. Letters addressed to other members of the Society, which had been forwarded to J. Lloyd Williams, are also included. Songs are often enclosed with letters.
Correspondence with close family members, including his wife, sons, brothers and sister.
Pocket diaries kept by J. Lloyd Williams, 1885-1945, containing only brief notes of appointments and engagements.
Diaries, journals and log books, 1871-1920, containing entries reflecting J. Lloyd Williams's interest, research and vocation in the field of botany, spanning his entire career.
Diaries and memo books of various sizes, containing entries relating to his daily activities and, to a great extent, the role played by music in his life. Entries refecting his work as a collector of folk songs and as editor of the Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society occur regularly. References reflecting his vocation as a botanist are sometimes included, particularly in the earlier diaries, and are noted at the appropriate file level descriptions.
Correspondence relating to J. Lloyd Williams
Letters of sympathy, 1945-1946, on J. Lloyd Williams's death and letters from the Librarian, National Library of Wales, 1946, relating to his papers and manuscripts.
Letters, 1892-1942, many from prominent botanists, mainly covering the period J. Lloyd Williams spent studying at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, 1893-1897, as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Botany and Agricultural Botany at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1897-1915, and as Professor of Botany at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1915 until his retirement in 1925.
Manuscript scores, libretto, sketches and other papers, [?1900]-1922, relating to the light opera Cadifor by J. Lloyd Williams and Llew Tegid.
Manuscript and printed scores, together with related correspondence and papers, 1899-1938, relating to the cantata 'Aelwyd Angharad' by J. Lloyd Williams, words by Llew Tegid.
Adjudication notes on essays and hymn-tunes submitted for competition at eisteddfodau and singing festivals, [?1924]-1938.
Accumulated manuscript volumes
Manuscript volumes, previously in the possession of musicians, collectors or precentors, and accumulated by Dr J. Lloyd Williams. Many were evidently acquired by him from J. H. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, and contain mainly folk songs and hymn tunes, recorded in eighteenth and nineteenth century Wales.